Cell for ph measurements



March 4, 1947. v G. A. PERLEY ET AL 2,416,949

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Patented Mar. 4, 1,947

CELL FOR PH MEASUREMENTS George A. Perley, Wyncote, Pa., and James B. Godshalk, Bowie, Md., assignors to Leeds and Northrop Company, Philadelphia, Pa., a corporation of Pennsylvania Application June 10, 1942, Serial No. 446,530

Our invention relates to measuring electrodes utilized to measure the hydrogen-ion concentration or the hydroxyl ion-concentration, both generically herein termed pH, of aqueous solutions.

In accordance with our invention, a measuring electrode of iridium, itself uncontaminated by occluded molecular hydrogen, is comprised in an ion-concentration cell whose electrolyte, the solution whose pH is to be determined, is essentially free of molecular hydrogen.

Our invention resides in the cells, electrodes and systems for measuring pH hereinafter described and claimed. i

For an understanding of our invention, reference is made to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 discloses characteristic curves discussed in explanation of the invention.

Figs. 2 to 5 inclusive are elevational views, partly in section or broken away, of different forms of our electrodes.

Fig. 6 is a bottom plan view of the electrode shown in Fig. 5. Y

Figs. 7 to 11 inclusive schematically illustrate measuring circuits suited for our electrodes.

This application is in part a continuation of our co-pending application Serial No. 299,960, iiled October 18, 1939.

In solutions containing both hydrogen ions and hydroxyl ions, these ions are always present in definite relation to each other; consequently measurement of the concentration of either of these ions is determinative of the individual concentrations of both ions. The pH of a solution is an index of itsacidity or alkalinity; it is directly and quickly determinableby measurement of the potential difference between a reference electrode and a measuring electrode, Without need for a se ries of titration measurements, each following an addition of acid or alkali, from which acidity or alkalinity may be indirectly and laboriously determined.

The measuring electrodes previously generally adopted for research or industrial use are the hydrogen gas electrode, the quinhydrone electrode,`r

the glass electrode, and the antimony electrode. However, none of these prior 'art electrodesr is suited for all, or very Wide range of kinds of, solutions throughout so great a range as pH to 14 pH and for wide ranges of temperature. As hereinafter appears, our measuring electrode of iridium has advantages not possessed by any one of the prior measuring' electrodes.

To distinguish at th'eoutset between our 'meas-y 8 Claims. (Cl. 204-195l variable oxidation-reduction eiects.

uring electrode of iridium and a hydrogen gas electrode which may, as in United States Letters Patent 1,846,354 and 1,474,151 to Parker et al. and Keeler, utilize a conductor or connector of iridium, reference is made to Fig. 1 in which curve O is the voltage-pH characteristic of an ion-concentration cell using our iridium electrode anda saturated calomel reference electrode, and 1n which curve H is the Voltage-pH characteristic 'of an ion-concentration cell using a hydrogen-'gas electrode and aforesaid calomel reference elec trode.

The potential of the iridium electrode with ren yspeci: to the selected referencev electrode is about +313 volt at 0 pH to'about -.l1 volt at 14 pH 'whereas the potential of a hydrogen electrode (whether or not the surface thereof in contact with test solution saturated with molecular hydrogen is iridium), with respect to aforesaid calornel reference electrode is from about .25 volt at 0 pH to about 1.08 volts at 14 pH. These potentials of the iridium-caloinel electrode system will vary a few millivolts for different degrees of saturation of potassium chloride in contact with the calomel.

For any given reference electrode, whether or not of the calomel type, the potential of the iridium electrode does not, for any magnitude of 10H throughout the range from 0 pH to 14 pH, correspond with the potential of the hydrogen electrode. More specically, the potential/pH characteristics O and H of the iridium and hydrogen electrodes do not meet at any point much less are they coincident. Throughout the range from 0 pH to 14 all potentials of the iridium electrode, which approximate the potentials of the theoretical oxygen electrode, are positive with respect to all potentials of the hydrogen electrode; for each magnitude of pH, the potential of the iridium electrode is positive, by about one volt,l

vThe potential/pH characteristic of an iridium electrode is consistently reproducible for a range including OpH to 14 pH, throughout a wide range of temperature lsuch as 0 C. to 100 C., and for practically all aqueous solutions excepting those which contain appreciable amount of molecular hydrogen and/or in which there are appreciable v By way of example, the iridium electrode is suited for measurement of the pH of sugar liquors, paper mill white water, and of water used for municipal i purposes; 'it is not suited for measurement of the l pH of sewage or of laundry bleaching solutions because of concurrent reversible oxidation and reduction reactions.

Should it be confirmed by redox potentialY measurements that a solution includes an'oxidation-reduction system butv one which is Vfixed, the effect upon the potential of the iridium electrode of the presence of the oxidation-reduction system must be compensated or neutralized in order that the cell voltage may uniquely represent, or be a measure of, pH: for example, to effect such neutralization the ion-concentration cell may be connected effectively in series opposition to a voltage equal to the xed potentialdiiference due to the oxidation-reduction system.

Unlike the hydrogen gas electrode (whether or not utilizing a conductor or connector of iridium), our iridium electrode is satisfactory for use in solutions at temperatures of about '70 C. and

higher and in solutions which contain more than inappreciablel amounts of CO2, NH3, or other gases contributing to the acidity or alkalinity of thessolutions and which would be scrubbed out,

the solutions. v

Unlike the glass measuring electrode, our

i iridium electrode is suited for pH measurements i when the solutions are distinctly alkaline (of i in use of the hydrogen gas electrode, by the l molecular hydrogen necessarilybubbled through pH higher than 9.6) even though there be present an appreciable amount of lithium, sodium or v potassium salt; it is physically strong or rugged;

1 it is satisfactory for measurement of pH of solutions at temperatures above about 50 C.

Unlike the antimony electrode, our iridium electrode is not restricted to a useful range "of from about 3 pH to 11.5 pH, is immune to presence of a copper or silver salt, and is suited for solutions which are strongly oxidizing. Moreover its potential/ion concentration characteristicis definite whereas the potential of the antimony.

electrode follows different characteristic curves which within thev range of from about 5 to 10 pH may differ as much as 0.8 pH for a given potential. Furthermore, agitation of the test solution,

as by stirring, does'not affect the potential/pH relation of the iridium electrode, in marked contrast to the effect of stirring when an antimony measuring electrode is used.

Unlike the quinhydrone electrode; our iridium electrode does notl tend to contaminate the test solution; it is suited for use at temperatures above about 60 C. Y

The iridium measuring electrode shown in Fig.

2 comprises a supporting rod 6, of brass or other suitable'metal, covered at its lower end with a4` cap.

7 of gold, silver, copper, lead, or other metal upon which iridium 8 may be deposited as herein later explained by electroplating, sputtering,V

or evaporation; The cork5 or equivalent is used to suspend the electrode with its lower end, Athe active electrode surface, in conta/:t withv the. test solution. Lead 4 is provided for connection of the electrode to a suitable measuring deviceror network. f

The iridium measuring electrode shown in Fig. 3 comprises a wire 9 of gold, silver, copper, lead or otherv suitable metal, coiled about the lower' material, such as glass. The'upper end of the end of the tube or rod i0 of suitable' insulating coil 9 isanchored by' bead ll, fused or otherwise fastened to tube 10,:whi1e the lower end of/the coil is held by a generally similar anchoringA` member i2.. After the wire 9 is wound on form formed by applying iridium, by an electroplating,r sputtering, or evaporation process, upon the smallrthin plate Iii, of gold, silveigcopper, lead,

o-r the like, attached to the lower end of wire l5 which extends through the tubeor rod 15A of suitable insulating material, such as glass.

The iridium electrode shown in Figs. 5 and 6r comprises a rod or bar I5 of brass, or other suit-V able metal, covered at its lower end by a leapV l1 of gold, silver, copper, lead or other metal upon which iridium may be coated as by electroplating,

sputtering, or evaporation. The tube I8 in which l the rod and cap are cast or which is molded or otherwise formed about them is preferably of Lucite "(polymethyl methacrylate) or other similar plastic.

active surface ofthe electrode assembly.

In the rimuinfations` of Figs. 2 to e, the active iridium surfaceof the measuring electrode is formed by electroplating, sputtering, orievaporationv because it has been'and still isimpossible to procure pure. iridium in thek form of a sheet,Y

or wire. |The present day processes of producing iridium sheet or wire involve'heating the iridium in atmospheres including vmolecular hydrogen which contaminates the iridium and renders it unsuited for our. use of it as an oxygen electrode n for pH measurements, f

A preferred procedurer for electro-chemically applyingrthe active iridium surfacel of theelectrodes of Figs. 2 to 6 is vnow described. vThe base surface of gold, or other equivalent metal, upon which the iridium is to be deposited is cleaned with `soap and water, highly burnished withy a buii'ng wheel and then recleaned with soap and.

water.V It is then further cleaned by cathodically polarizing it, in a hot 0.05 molar solution of trisodiurn phosphate, with a current density,

.0.2 to 0.3 amperes per square centimeter, forabout ten minutes. This electrodeV base isthen first washed in tap water, and then thoroughly washed in distilled water; the prepared base D should thenbev kept Vin distilled vwater until. it is Ato be electroplated. Y A preferred plating bath is a solution of chloroiridious acid prepared byadding 15 millilitersof vethyl alcohol to la solution of 1.3 grams of Hanoi@ in ico miiiiiiters ort/atei.Y LThe 'salu tion isA boileduntil the solution changes from dark red, to vdark brown orblackindicatingreductionv of. the iridium to iridious state.. The ex-` cess alcohol is boiled oi, all trace of metallic iridiumis removed by filtering, and water'added to the resultant solution in quantity sufficient -to i make V100.v rnilliliters. To this is added ,8.4 milliliters of concentrated acid; the resultant'solution is aboutone molar in hydrochloric acid.

Alternativeiy, the plating bathzmay be a sulphuric acid solutionof iridium chloride.

The preferred anode, is of carbon, thoroughly cleaned, soakedin aqua regia for aboutlZ hours, and then thoroughly washed in distilled water.

The plating operationmay be conducted. at',Y

T009@ temlierature for about two or .three hours The lower exposed face of cap' Il' is thereafter coated, as by electroplating, sputl tering, or evaporation, with iridium'to form theV at a current density of about 1.5 milliamperes per square centimeter of exposed cathode surface. The bath should be continuously stirred during the plating operation. A bright adherent plate is obtained.

So forming the iridium surface of the measuring electrode effectively ensures absence of occluded hydrogen having serious eifect upon the pI-I/ion concentration characteristic of the electrode.

It is important that the iridium surface be essentially non-porous; otherwise the base metal also is in contact with the solution and because having pH response characteristic different from the iridium seriously impairs the reliability of the potential/pH characteristic of the electrode.

In attainment of non-porosity, the iridium coating is preferably formed by a series of electroplating operations, each producinga thin deposit which is cleaned and burnished before the next plating operation.

A dense non-porous coating of iridium forthe active surface of any of the electrodes shown in Figs. 2 to 6 may be obtained by an evaporation process similar to that disclosed in the article beginning on page '779 of the Journal of Applied Physics, November 1941, and in earlier articles included in the bibliography appended thereto. In brief, the uncoated base electrode is disposed within an exhausted chamber, pressure. about -4 millimeter of mercury, in which is also disposed iridium, preferably plated on a tungsten `wire heated to a temperature suiiciently high to vaporize the iridium but below the Vaporization temperature of the tungsten. The resultant iridium deposit is apparently of molecular fineness and there are no paths, directly or tortuously through the iridium coating, by which the test solution can reach the base metal.

This method of forming the active iridium surface of the iridium electrode also ensures absence of occluded hydrogen.

The iridium may also be deposited in a dense, essentially non-porous layer by a sputtering process such as generally described by A. C. G. Beach in vol. 7, pages 193 et seq., of the Journal of Scientic instruments. Briey, to two electrodes, one having an iridium surface, disposed in an evacuated chamber is applied a substantially high unidirectional difference of potential.

The base member for the measuring electrode (the supporting rod, wire or plate 6, 9, M, I6 of Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5) to be surfaced with iridium is disposed within the evacuated chamber between the high-voltage electrodes and the degree of vacuum so Varied that the base member is just outside of the cathode dark space extending from that high-voltage electrode which serves as the source of iridium. Iridium apparently in atomic or molecular form is deposited upon the base member and forms thereon a functionally unbroken or non-porous surface of iridium free of occluded hydrogen.

Although the iridium electrode is essentially a.

low impedance electrode (the resistance of an iridium-saturated calomel system in municipal water being of the order of 3000 ohms), it is preferable that it not be connected directly to a detector whose own impedance across its'input terminals is low; the measurements of the potential of the iridium'electrode should not require a current density of more than about 10-I amperes per square centimeter of active electrode surface, otherwise errors due to polarization may occur. f

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If the detector, generically illustrated by rectangle I9, Fig.l '7, is of high impedance type, the4 leads 4, 4A from the iridium electrode I and the reference electrode R of` cell 2li may directly con- .nect to the input terminals 2li, 2l of the detector;

but if the detectoris of the low impedance type, generically illustrated by rectangle 22, Fig. 8, resistance of suitably high magnitude should be included in the electrode circuit to insure suitably Slow current demand ,upon the ion-concentration jbe included in circuit with the leads if, A to the input terminals 2G', 2|', of the detector system. The minimum magnitude of resistance 23 may be calculated when the area of the active surface of electrode I and constants of the detector' cirrcuit are known.

An ion-concentration cell having our iridium electrode preferably should not directly be connected across a galvanometer` or included in an ordinary potentiometer or similar network; without resistance'23, the current demand upon the electrode is too high for accurate measurements.

A suitable and simple low impedance detector circuit using an ordinary galvanomenter G is shown in Fig. 9. To measure the voltage of the ion-concentration cell 25., the movable switch contact 25 is lrst thrown to the left into engagement with contact 26 to connect cell 2li in series with condenser C and high resistance 23. f Current flows from cell 2&3 until condenser C is f7 charged to a voltage equal to that produced by cell 24; the magnitude of the chargng current is limited by resistance 23 to preclude polarizan tion errors. The contact 25 is then thrown to the right into engagement with contact 2 to connect condenser C across galvanometer G. The discharge of the condenser causes the galvanometer, used as a ballistic instrument, temporarily to deect from its neutral position to an extent representative of the voltage produced by cell 24. The galvanometer scale may be calibrated in pH so that by reading the maximum of the pointer swing occurring upon discharge of condenser C the ion-concentration of the solution in cell 24 may be directly ascertained.

The condenser C should not be of a type, for example electrolytic, which permits flow through the condenser of appreciable leakage current; a high-grade mica condenser is satisfactory. By utilizing a large condenser, for example, one having a capacity of about 1 microfarad, a relatively large ow of current through the galvanometer momentarily occurs upon discharge of the condenser C therethrough, notwithstanding the current drain upon cell 2t for charging the condenser is very small or such as not to cause polarization of the electrode I.

The high impedance detector circuit shown in Fig. 10 (and circuits similar thereto disclosed in Wunsch Patent No. 2,285,482) is suitable for direct connection to the iridium and reference electrodes without need for currentulimiting re sistance 23 in the connections to its input terminais 20', 2l'. When switch contacts 28, 29 are in the positions indicated, three voltages are in series between the control electrode or grid g and cathode h of thermionic tube V; they are the voltage produced by ion-concentration cell 24, a balancing voltage produced by potentiometer P, and a biasing voltage, for the control electrode, produced by network B, or equivalent source,

, slightly different zero-voltage intercepts.

andere Y With. movable contact 28: in engagement. with contact Bll'to' include high resistance 3|. in. the

input circuit. of tube V` inI substitution for the, A `cell 24 andY potentiometer?, aforesaid biasing voltageis adjusted, if necessary, asby movement ocontact 32 along slidewire v33 of network B,4

until there is noY change in. magnitude of the anode current of" tube V-indicated by. null de,-

Z `flee-tion of galvanomenter G (inv circuitwith condenser K, as in aforesaid Patent No. 2,285,482)- upon movement of contact 29 into or out of engagement with contact 3c. Ater the detector is `so compensated for any drift or change which may have occurred in the thermionic tube constants or the voltages applied to the tube elec.- trodes, switch 23 is returned into engagement `with Contact 28a with the assurance' that zero changeof anode current upon opening. and closure of contacts 29, 3f?, is indicative of balance between the voltage produced by ion-concentration cell 24 and the opposed' voltage of potentiometer P. Resistance 3 l' is not of critical magnitude; it may for example be ofY any resistance withinV the range of from l to 100 megohms. v Y To determine the magnitude of the voltage produced by cell 24, and therefore the ionfconable contacts-41", 68, connected tofgalvanometer t rGgengage the contactslt, 5t of the standardizing Y until there is null deflection of galvanometer. Gr;

V the ion-concentration may then be4 read directlyL deection of galvanometer Gwhen contacts 29, 1

3d are openedor closed.

The scale 3l of the potentiometer P may be j calibrated ldirectly in pH values. For covering a wide range of pH, the connection from the ionooncentration cell 24 to the potentiometer is to a point whose potential is intermediate the pon tentials of the terminals of slidewire 3S; for ex`n ample, to tap 38 which is preferably adjustable through a small range to suit one and the same scale 3l to different iridium electrcdeswhose voltage ion-concentration curves may have The proper setting of tap SS is determined by using a i During the measurements, the current throughV i slidewire 3S Should be maintainedV at thatst'ande i ard value for which scale 37 is calibrated; for

simplicity, theV usual reestandardizing circuit, inV- cluding a standard cell, is not shown.

The manipulation of contactsk 28,' 29 and' adjustment of contacts 32, 35 may be efectedmanually, or automatically by the mechanism' dise closed in Williams application Serial No.,l28,636

filed March 2, 1937, Patent No. 2,312,945', March Referring to rFig. l1, which discloses axhigh impedance detector similar to those shown in United States Letters Patent No. 2,108,294:v to

, Doyle et al., one of the electrodes of cell 2.4 is r connected to input terminal 2t connected to theV control Velectrode g of tube V, andthe other cell v electrode is connected to input terminal 21 con-v nected to Contact 35 adjustable along slidewire 36 of balancing potentiometer P which. is con'- nected in series with resistances Ail-'15' across a suitable source of direct-current voltage. DC.'

To check the current through slidewire 3B; thek buttonv ofil switch 46 isgdepressed'socthat its -.mov'

ycircuit includingV standard cell SC. The stand@ ardizing resistance 45; is thenrad'justed, if neces` sary, until the Volta-ge drop across resistor Mis equal, as indicated by null deilection o galvanometer G1, to the' voltage ofthe standard cell SC.

To' adjust the system tor correct for change in the ltube constants,` the. switch .29, ed is closed to apply zero voltage to the input electrodes y; h of, the. tube. ThenziorY a desired setting of contact 5l along resistance 52, and Vwith the con-i4 ta'ctsI 41., 4,8 of switch it in their upper indicatedy position, the contact. 53 is adjusted along slide wire I514, in 'shunttoresistor 3, untilthere is, null deflectionof galvanometer G. Switch 29, 3d

is. then opened and the system is in condition for accurate measurementV of thevoltage pro-V f After the system. has been so restandardized yand adjusted to the tube constants, the ionconcentration of the solution in cell. 2d is meas- 1 ured byY adjusting. contact 35 of potentiometer P from. scalev 3l'.

The tap -38 is preferably adjustable along slidewire 36, or asillustrated along resistance 55 in.. shunt thereto, to compensate, as inV Fig. 10, .for v any slight differencesbetween theV zero-voltage intercepts of the. 'potential/ion concentration characteristics of f dilerent'v iridium electrodes..

TheV adjustments; of; contacts 35, 35a and 53, y and operation of' switches 2%, 3ft and llt may be' eiected manually or automatically by mechanism similar to that; disclosed inA the aforesaid Williamspatent.

The measuring electrode.Y If in any of to 1l may be structurally of any of the Ytypes shown in Figs.l 2'to 6. With any ofour iridium electrodes, the test solution whosey pI-I is to be determined should lbe in contact,v with atmospheric air orv atmosphere of substantially the same oxygen pressure. It is not necessary and in generalk undesirable toV bubble oxygen into the test solution. The iridium electrode is quite insensitive towide Variations in oxygen pressure but under conditions ofsubstantially higher or substantially lower oxygen pressure it may be necessary to' recalibrate" the measuring apparatus. While herein there has been described the use in association with' ourv measuring electrode of a calomel half-cell or'reference electrode, it shall be understood. other suitable half-cells may be used; for example, thev reference half-cell may be ofthe so-called silver/silver chloride type, l of the quinhydroneA type or of the hydrogen gasV type; Whenv necessary, the reference half-cell should be isolatedzby a salt-bridge from the testsolution; for'example,` if the reference half-cell isa hydrogen gasA electrodeVthe latter is dis-A posed' in a solution ofv known constant pH and electrically connected to the test solution through a salt-bridge.

We disclaim, as the measuring electrode of a cell for measurement of lmagnitudes of pH, a

metallized glass electrode consisting of a iilm ofV iridium on glass.-

What we claim is:

l. A cell for measuring the pI-I of a solutionv containing moiecularoxygen and free of molecular hydrogen comprising in contact with the soluV-d tion a non-porous iridium measuring electrode,Y

uncontaminated lby occluded hydrogen, and

Whose voltage/pH characteristic is consistentlyf ries. fr

reproducible and approximates that of the theoretical oxygen electrode.

2. A cell for measuring the pH of a solution containing molecular oxygen and free of molecular hydrogen comprising in contact with the solution a non-porous iridium measuring electrode, uncontaminated by occluded hydrogen, and Whose voltage/pH characteristic, for current densities less than 10p? ampere per square centimeter of area of contact with the solution, is consistently reproducible and approximates that of the theoretical oxygen electrode.

.3. A cell for measuring the pH of a solution containing molecular oxygen and free of molecular hydrogen comprising in contact with the solution a non-porous iridium measuring electrode, uncontaminated by occluded hydrogen, and Whose voltage/pH characteristic is consistently reproducible and throughout the range of pH to 14 pH and for temperatures of the solution from about 0 C. to about 100 C. approximates the characteristic of the theoretical oxygen electrode.

4. A cell for measuring the pI-I of a solution containing molecular oxygen and free of molecular hydrogen comprising in contact with the solution a non-porous iridium measuring electrode, uncontaminated by occluded hydrogen, and which in contact with the solution produces potentials, in relation to `a calomel reference electrode, ranging, in consistently reproducible linear characteristic, from about .7 volt at 0 pH to about minus .1 volt at 14 pH.

5. A cell for measuring the pH of a solution containing molecular oxygen and free of molecular hydrogen, and containing ions of one or more of the metals copper, silver, lithium, sodium and potassium, comprising in contact With the solution a non-porous iridium measuring electrode, uncontaminated by occluded hydrogen, and whos-e voltage/pH characteristic is consistently reproducible and approximates that of the theoretical oxygen electrode.

6. A cell for measuring the pH of a solution containing molecular oxygen and free of molecular hydrogen, and containing ions of oney or more of the metals copper, silver, lithium, sodium and potassium, comprising in contact with the solution a non-porous iridium measuring electrode, uncontaminated by occluded hydrogen, and Which in contact with the solution produces potentials, in relation to a calomel reference electrode, ranging, in consistently reproducible linear characteristic, from about plus .7 volt at 0 pH to about minus .1 volt at 14 pH.

7. A cell for measuring the pH of asolution containing molecular oxygen and free of molecular hydrogen comprising in contact with said solution a measuring electrode of iridium to such extent non-porous and uncontaminated by occluded hydrogen that the resultant voltage/pH characteristic, for current densities less than 10-7 ampere per square centimeter of area of contact of said electrode With said solution and for temperatures of said solution from about 0 C. to about 100 C., is consistently reproducible, linear and approximates the characteristic of the theoretical oxygen electrode.

8. A cell for measuring the pH of a solution containing molecular oxygen and free of molecular hydrogen, and containing ions of one or more of the metals copper, silver, lithium, sodium and potassium, comprising in contact with said solution a measuring electrode of iridium, nonporous and uncontaminated by occluded hydrogen, and whose voltage/pH characteristic, for current densities less than 10-7 ampere per square centimeter of area of contact with said solution and for a temperature of said solution from about 0 C. to about 100 C., is consistently reproducible and linear from about plus .7 volt at 0 pH to about minus .1 Volt'at 14 pH.

GEORGE A. PERLEY. `JAMES B. GODSHALK.

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UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,846,354 Parker et al Feb. 23, 1932 2,192,123 Bennett Feb. 27, 1940 2,143,723 Walker et al. Janlo, 1939 2,071,697 Larrabee Feb. 23, 1937 2,256,771 Berghaus et al. Sept. 23, 1941 1,970,950 Wise Aug, 21, 1934 1,513,558 Parker Oct. 28, 1924 2,058,761 Beckman et al. Oct. 27, 1936 2,329,896 Harsch Sept. 2l, 1943 1,624,845 Nyberg Apr. 12, 1927 1,696,873 Wood Dec. 25, 1928 2,164,755 Marhenkel July 4, 1939 2,081,926 Gyuris June 1, 1937 OTHER REFERENCES Lepper et al.-Article in British Journal rof Experimental Pathology, volume 11, pages 137- 139, 140-145 (1930), (London).

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